gehringer_2

let's try to define what 'trust' a politician means. Do I trust that I have a pretty good idea what Trump will do in a given situation - yes. I might even go as far as to say that at this point I think i have a better idea of Trump will do in a given situation than Harris. The problem is that I also "trust" that the odds are overwhelming that Trump's response will be worse for America and Americans than whatever Harris does even if I was less able to predict exactly what it was going to be.

I think there was in fact considerable discussion that Harris was the only viable alternative to Biden.

If they double it every game they'll be cruising by next week!

The level or political support will work its way out in the wash. That result has nothing to do with the disingenuousness of rhetorically conflating proposals that are clearly an effort toward publicly supported government reform that can be honestly debated, with the actions of a tyrant like Maduro to consolidate strong man rule.

Is there a player in the majors who looks in more life threatening condition than Josh Naylor?

He voice may 'count' - doesn't mean it's worth asking anyone else to waste their time reading when his logic is drivel. YMMV. Not to mention by posting it without any critique of it's silliness you associate yourself with a dumb take. Now I realize a lot of that goes on here, but more isn't better.

just keep pitching to Jose. You'll get him in the HOF that much quicker... 🙄

Beau did not make it out of the 1st inning.

I hope the price for Flaherty just got higher....

This is starting with a bang -for the wrong team. I love Peaches but "the starting pitching a little bit in flux...."

Because requiring adherence to real ethics standards and expanding guarantees of rule of law is just the same thing as commandeering the judiciary with pet jurists. Post better than this.

Just saw that Biden put his SCOTUS proposals into a guest OP-ED piece in the WaPo. Look for some Pitchbot worthy anti-Biden stuff in the NYT by tomorrow.....🤣

Even last year the knock about Tork wasn't that he couldn't turn on a good FB, it's that he was never ready to - which is not quite the same thing.

You are correct, but it's in the line of undoing, reversing, or if you like 'reforming' something the SCOTUS did, so I guess some media consultant decided it's close enough to bundle it together if it's all going in one press release.....

so apart from the general political chatter that each side always blames the other for everything, what serious argument have you been hearing that blames Hamas on Trump? I suppose you might make a very round about arg that Trump has been a Netanyahu enabler and if not for Bibi being Bibi the situation in Gaza might have been different. You can certainly make that arg, but it's speculative at best. Obama was a Netanyahu nemesis, it didn't make much difference in Israel or Gaza/West Bank to the long term worsening of the situations there. And to be honest, actions taken by a US Admin WRT oil sanctions are not driven by any belief we do or don't trust anyone on the other side, they are taken to affect US gasoline prices - nothing more or less, and I don't think you really doubt that reality.

There are a couple of refineries on the gulf coast that oil companies spent a lot of money on so they could run Venezuelan crude - which has unique processing requirements. Exxon is one of those operators so there is one axis of lobbying pressure.

right - and It's as much a political shot across the bow that the other branches don't necessarily roll over to an over active court's authority to create definitions. If Congress defines 'official act' in law, then it seems they effectively overrule the Court's discretion on the matter.

IDK, he got his shot, had his problems. You normally can't tolerate a 1.43 WHIP in a closer. His hits and walks are up, his K's are down. If you look at his fangraphs charts his velo has fallen off since early this season/last season so that probably explains the results, so the question is why? And unfortunately, the velo drop is going to have trade partners leery also.

Chafin might be hard to move outside of Chicago or Ohio as he already bombed once when he was traded away from home.

Who knows? My other question would be whether we have the intelligence and foreign service capabilities to recognize, act, formulate policy, if some kind of option presents itself.

No one is going to be able to frame the sow's ear of a pitching staff left after Flaherty and Skubal are gone into anything other than.....a lot of losses.

that's terrible to hear.

LOL - there are always those things that you know work for some people where you can't personally imagine how. For me it's Disney/theme parks in general.

The marines, fund an insurgency, black ops assassination. Not real good are they? But that's the way the world really is. Most of the time there are no good options, but that's still a poor reason to resort to counter-productive action just to make yourself feel good. (And just to correct myself, Ven is of course SA and not CA but the distinction is immaterial here.)

Yeah- I remember how they finished in '17